So, April 1st finally passed and today we can finally see which rumors were true and which ideas were plain pranks. Among many interesting features, there were some that excelled on the level of innovation, which naturally led people (and myself) believe that they were in fact true!
Let's start with couple of nice pranks and interesting things that certain social media website have put on for the 1st of April. The major influence of internet we know today, Google, had prepared something special for this occasion. Google featured "Treasure Maps", which transformed the traditional maps into a Pirates of Caribbean style treasure map. I found it quite amusing, but sadly I did not discover any treasures in my backyard.
Next up, YouTube had announced that they created YouTube to simply find the best video in the world. The selected winner will be the "winner" of YouTube. After this is done, the service will shut down and the selected video will not be shown until 2023, when YouTube will run again, just to show you this very video.
Finally, Twitter announced "twittr" a paid service that will allow users to use vowels. While the service will remain free for the next couple of days, only consonants can be used, unless of course someone is willing to pay $5 per month for "premium" Twitter service. That's not all! There will be an extension of the length of the tweets, from 140 words, to 141, for those moments when you need one more character to finish your thoughts.
These were in my opinion most noble of the parks that I've seen this year in social media. Also, cat headphones should get an honorable mention, as after all it's Sony making home cats look cool (even though it's not really social media related).
Happy after Easter.
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